Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Libya and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Joy Division to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Agent Orange. All the underground hits.
All Television tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
A Certain Ratio,
David Bowie,
Ice-T,
Godley & Creme,
Unwound,
Soul II Soul,
Man Parrish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rosa Yemen,
The New Christs,
Skarface,
The Cure,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Newcleus,
Banda Bassotti,
Tomorrow,
Al Stewart,
Kerrie Biddell,
Harry Pussy,
Joensuu 1685,
Minutemen,
Monolake,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Howard Jones,
Eddi Front,
The Real Kids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
PIL,
Parry Music,
The Monochrome Set,
Lyres,
Erasure,
Flipper,
Danielle Patucci,
Slick Rick,
Albert Ayler,
Yusef Lateef,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lou Christie,
The Gories,
Idris Muhammad,
Eli Mardock,
X-Ray Spex,
The Seeds,
the Slits,
Arcadia,
OOIOO,
Excepter,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Black Flag,
Dead Boys,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Au Pairs,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Iggy Pop,
Bill Wells,
Ten City,
Television,
The Smoke,
Moebius,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.